'American Reunion' is a stale slice of 'Pie'

8:30 PM,
Apr. 5, 2012

Written by

Rene Rodriguez
McClatchy Newspapers

Nearly 10 years after "American Wedding," the third — and, it once seemed, last — installment in the popular "American Pie" franchise, the gang's all back for a fourth go-around. The actors, many of them now in their mid-30s, look understandably fuller in the face and thicker around the waist. The jokes, too, are starting to show their age: They wobble.

"American Reunion" has all of the ingredients that made the previous "Pies" so popular: outrageous bits of explicit sexual comedy; sudden in-your-face shots of nude body parts; incredibly inappropriate (but sweet and funny) ...